all water, low nutrition salad foods: cucumbers, radishes, lettuce, celery. waste of resources?

[hunter]

29. Yep. Science for hire has determined most of the human ESSENTIAL nutrients...

... and many of the most attractive "junk food" nutrients and flavors, but I think I'll take a pass on any future where our corporate overlords try to feed basic workers some version of monkey chow, synthetic "lemonades" and "beers," or Soylent products of any color.

Any human being who doesn't have a favorite fresh fruit or herb is living in an abusive environment.

I'll go further: Every human deserves a space where they can grow whatever makes them happy. Every human child, at the very minimum, should have the opportunity to grow radishes, even if they don't especially care for radishes. With that experience they might care for growing something.

I've got some lovely little tomatoes growing in my yard and it pleases me immensely to eat them warm and fresh off the vine. This years batch is five years and more of random "open source" genetic recombination.

If it grows here without much fuss I like it, if it grows here and tastes exceptionally good, I encourage it.